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This paper continues the investigations from [7] and is concerned with the derivation of first-order conditions for a control constrained optimization problem governed by a non-smooth elliptic PDE. The control enters the state equation not…

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We prove a sufficient optimality condition for non-linear optimal control problems with delays in both state and control variables. Our result requires the verification of a Hamilton-Jacobi partial differential equation and is obtained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-17 Ana P. Lemos-Paiao , Cristiana J. Silva , Delfim F. M. Torres

We consider a stochastic control problem where the set of controls is not necessarily convex and the system is governed by a nonlinear backward stochastic differential equation. We establish necessary as well as sufficient conditions of…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-20 Seid Bahlali

This note is concerned with an optimal control problem governed by the relativistic Maxwell-Newton-Lorentz equations, which describes the motion of charges particles in electro-magnetic fields and consists of a hyperbolic PDE system coupled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-27 C. Meyer , S. M. Schnepp , O. Thoma

In this paper, a quadratic optimal control problem is considered for second-order parabolic PDEs with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions, in which the "point" control function (depending only on time) constitutes a source term. These…

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This article discusses an optimal control problem for a phase field model of two immiscible incompressible fluid flow, incorporating surface tension effects. The optimal control problem is defined with a $L^2$-cost functional and subject to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Arghya Kundu

An optimal control problem for semilinear parabolic partial differential equations is considered. The control variable appears in the leading term of the equation. Necessary conditions for optimal controls are established by the method of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-08-20 Hongwei Lou

In this paper, we study a class of stochastic optimal control problem with jumps under partial information. More precisely, the controlled systems are described by a fully coupled nonlinear multi- dimensional forward-backward stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-11-18 Qingxin Meng

We consider the optimal control of singular nonlinear partial differential equation which is the distributional formulation of the multiphase Stefan type free boundary problem for the general second order parabolic equation. Boundary heat…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Ugur G. Abdulla , Evan Cosgrove

In this paper, we study the numerical approximation of a system of PDEs with fractional time derivatives. This system is derived from an optimal control problem for a time-fractional Fokker-Planck equation with time dependent drift by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-08 Fabio Camilli , Serikbolsyn Duisembay , Qing Tang

In this article, we consider the Tikhonov regularization of an optimal control problem of semilinear partial differential equations with box constraints on the control. We derive a-priori regularization error estimates for the control under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-04 Frank Pörner , Daniel Wachsmuth

Stochastic transport processes on networked domains (modelled on metric graphs) arise in a variety of applications where diffusion and drift mechanisms interact with an underlying graph structure. The Fokker--Planck equation provides a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Ritu Kumari , Cyrille Kenne , Landry Djomegne , Mani Mehra

In this paper we consider an optimal control problem (OCP) for the coupled system of a nonlinear monotone Dirichlet problem with matrix- valued non-smooth controls in coefficients and a nonlinear equation of Ham- merstein type. Since…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-28 Olha P. Kupenko , Rosanna Manzo

The aim of this paper is to investigate the existence of optimal controls for systems described by stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) with locally monotone coefficients controlled by different external forces which are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-29 Edson A. Coayla-Teran , Paulo M. Dias de Magalhães , Jorge Ferreira

In this article, the limiting behavior of the solution $\bar u_s$ of the optimal control problem subjected to the fractional Poisson equation $$(-\Delta)^s u_s(x)=f_s(x), \quad x\in \Omega$$ defined on domain $\Omega$ bounded by smooth…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Ram Manohar , Kedarnath Buda , B. V. Rathish Kumar

In this paper we consider an optimal control problem for the coupled system of a nonlinear monotone Dirichlet problem with anisotropic p-Laplacian and matrix-valued nonsmooth controls in its coefficients and a nonlinear equation of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-25 T. Durante , O. P. Kupenko , R. Manzo

This article presents a constrained policy optimization approach for the optimal control of systems under nonstationary uncertainties. We introduce an assumption that we call Markov embeddability that allows us to cast the stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Sungho Shin , François Pacaud , Emil Contantinescu , Mihai Anitescu

We study the problem of optimal inside control of an SPDE (a stochastic evolution equation) driven by a Brownian motion and a Poisson random measure. Our optimal control problem is new in two ways: (i) The controller has access to inside…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-31 Olfa Draouil , Bernt Øksendal

The analysis of an optimal control problem of nonlocal type is analyzed. The results obtained are applied to the study the corresponding local optimal control problems. The state equations are governed by p-laplacian elliptic operators, of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-07 Julio Muñoz